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Individual variation in normal tissue sensitivity
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Variation in response harder to observe with mega-voltage beams
because of skin sparing
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Could be exploited:
To avoid toxicity in sensitive patients
≤ 5% of patients
To dose escalate resistant patients
40% of patients - dose escalate up to ~15%
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Other methods to measure normal tissue response are needed, to
produce more & better dose response data